Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get (song)

Song Background

Chart Performance

Cover versions

• The song has been covered by British pop group The Beautiful South on their 1990 album Choke
• American singer and drag queen RuPaul covered it on the 1993 soundtrack album
• The American experimental rock band When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water covered it on their 1994 album Bill Kennedy's Showtime
• Duo Hall & Oates included it on their 2004 album Our Kind of Soul
• Gerald Albright included it, as an instrumental, on his 2008 CD "Sax For Stax" as "What You See Is What You Get".

  Later uses

• "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" is featured in Mel Stuart's 1973 documentary film "Wattstax." This film chronicles the historical 1972 Wattstax concert at the Los Angeles Colosseum in which the Dramatics performed this song among a legendary lineup of R&B, Soul, Pop, and gospel artists.
• The Dramatics performed "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" in the racially charged and raunchy "Darktown Strutters," a blaxploitation comedy film produced by Gene Corman in 1975.
• In 2007 "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" was included in the soundtrack for the American '60s/'70s period film "Talk To Me," starring Don Cheadle.
• The song was featured in the second season of the FX series Fargo, in the episode "The Gift of the Magi". It also features in the closing credits of the James Randi documentary, An Honest Liar.

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